Chloral Hydrate Synthesis

[DEA:)]

Thought I share this Chloral Hydrate Synthesis route I found on the web once, which is a quite enjoyable, early sleeping aid.

Needed:
- anhydrous ethyl alcohol
- concentrated hydrochloric acid (how concentrated?)
- calcium hypochlorite


Pour pure anhydrous ethyl alcohol into a large flask and lower it’s ph to below 5 using concentrated hydrochloric acid. Saturate the solution with calcium hypochlorite. Boil/evaporate solution to yield chloral hydrate.


VALIDATE BEFORE TRYING!!! (I noted to myself than and I DID NOT, yet)

 

[WillD]

maximum 40% for aqueous solution, can't be more
the main essence of the reaction is simple - we need a source of chlorine in one or another reagent, in industry we use gaseous chlorine

 

[DEA:)]

thats awesome easy, so i can just use normal household HCl. Will try that on some point